Class, below you'll find the prompt for our research paper.
In Khaled Hosseini’s The Kite Runner, we read that in the mid-1990s, when the Taliban first took power in Afghanistan, their arrival was welcomed by many people. Further investigation showed that signs of that welcome were difficult to find within a couple of years. Investigate the conditions that once made the people of Afghanistan hopeful that the Taliban regime would bring about a positive change. Also investigate the changes that turned some of those same people against their so-called liberators in the Taliban.
Write a six to eight page paper describing the welcome that came and then disappeared. Rather than skip quickly over a number of reasons, I'd prefer that you to find one things to explore - the Taliban policy toward educating women and girls, for instance - that interests you and dig deeply into it. Ask yourself what life was like that made people happy to have the Taliban take over the country. Then find out why many people began to turn against them. Use what you find to write about this important period in the recent history of Afghanistan. You must use MLA formatting and citation guidelines, and at least five sources. Of those five, three must be from a newspaper or magazine article, one of which must be published by and English-language publisher based outside the United States; one must use video footage; one must be from a published book.
